Blue Rose Task Force: A Twin Peaks Obsessive Podcast

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S2E15 “Slaves and Masters” Feb 03, 2023

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Twin Peaks Episode 22 is either a breath of fresh air or an abomination to fans, and your host John sees both sides of the debate. He looks into the effects of it being directed by popular star Diane Keaton, and all her conspicuous camera tricks and internal points of view that won’t be seen again in the series (at least not until 2017). Windom Earle’s early shifting characterization goes under the microscope, as does the supernatural tone to Josie’s entrapment and Evelyn’s final scenes. Then John points out how Norma’s setting of boundaries begins to benefit her, then tracks how Ben finally surfaces back to reality.

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A Song is Formed...(BRTF Theme Music) Jan 20, 2023

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Blue Rose Task Force Podcast celebrates its first birthday by singing a different kind of song: your host John Bernardy, Elle Holgate, and Joe Coyne tell the story of how an unused song idea grew into the theme music for the podcast.

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S2E14 “Double Play” Jan 13, 2023

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Twin Peaks Episode 21 seems to manifest everyone’s strongest fears, most notably with Shelly Johnson’s life taking on all the tropes of a slasher movie, and not even Cooper’s intuition can avoid being clouded by his tragic past.
Your host John looks into all of that, as well as Eckhardt and Earle’s arrivals, how empathy can turn devils into children, and help can come in the form of doctors, shrinks, and sometimes even Evelyn.

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Navigating Between Worlds: Understanding Twin Peaks Season 3 Jan 06, 2023

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Thank you for making 2021 a giant success for Blue Rose Task Force Podcast! Here’s a little something for under the tree: an audio version of the 25YL article Navigating Between Worlds: Understanding Twin Peaks Season 3. It contains—all in one place—you host John’s thoughts for how he sees layered reality being portrayed in Twin Peaks, and gives his evidence to make sense of it. We know this is just one reasonable interpretation among many, but we hope it helps you when interpreting your own journey through Twin Peaks.

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The Twin Peaks Podcasts Scene Jan 01, 2023

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What makes a great Twin Peaks podcast? It’s a good time of year to shine a light on the wide variety of Twin Peaks podcasts, and there’s no one better to help John in this task than fellow Peaks pod fanatic Agent Ivy.
Find out which podcasts—from the early days to today—have noteworthy host chemistry, do their research, are completists, and/or have different formats than recapping. We bet you’ll find a few new favorites before this episode is over.

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The podcasts we speak about:

Twin Peaks Unwrapped
Sparkwood & 21 Podcast
Bickering Peaks (The Bicks)
Ghostwood Podcast
The Twin Peaks Wonderful & Strange Logcast
Creamed Corn and the Universe
The Twin Peaks Tattoo Podcast
The Red Room Podcast
Deer Meadow Radio
Counter Esperanto
In Our House Now
Lost in Twin Peaks
The Diane Podcast
Back to the Double R
Twin Peaks: The Gifted & the Damned
Dishin’ the Percolator
Same Peaks Y’All
Cooper Dooper Podcast
Damn Fine TV
Talking Backwards
Manners & Madness
PeaksChatz
fSobriety
The Hop-Ons Podcast
The Twin Peaks Podcast
Twin Peaks Peeks
Tome For Cakes & Ales
Wrapped in Podcast
A Twin Peaks Podcast: A Podcast About Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks Rewatch
Twin Peaks Revival
119!
The Lodgers
Drink Full and Descend
Chopping Wood Inside (edited)
January 7, 2023

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S2E13 “Checkmate” Dec 16, 2022

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Twin Peaks Episode 20 says goodbye to Jean Renault with a stupendous monologue your host John explores for thematic and lore implications. Also, what changes did Lynch want director Todd Holland to make to the episode, and why? How do we parse all the sexuality used as a weapon this episode? What is Windom Earle’s relationship to electricity, and what does Major Briggs tell us about the lore of the White Lodge? The middle of Season 2 continues to have more richness than its reputation implies.

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Cinema and Twin Peaks Dec 11, 2022

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Agent Elle is back with a field report relating to all things Cinema and Twin Peaks. She and John explore well beyond how Twin Peaks references cinema, up to and including how the origins of film and psychoanalysis relate. Lots to unpack in another deceivingly compact package.

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S2E12 "The Black Widow" Nov 28, 2022

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Episode 19 of Twin Peaks is underway and storms are coming, but some characters are more prepared to weather them than others.
Your host John discusses Ben Horne’s descent via feng shui into a delusion as a Civil War general, while also looking into the influence of Ken Burns’ The Civil War on the storyline.
More delusion is under investigation with “may be the devil” Little Nicky and “she’s a witch” Lana, and James’ storyline is more on theme with Twin Peaks than it lets on. Has Nadine crossed a line beyond just healing? Is Cooper getting supernatural assistance with his suspension, or just help from Audrey? And how does it go for Bobby as he tries to connect to father figures?

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S2E11 "Masked Ball" Nov 01, 2022

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Denise Bryson arrives in Twin Peaks in Episode 19 along with genuine lore about the Lodges and your host John looks into the origins of both of them.
Then it’s time to ask if we’re watching a new timeline, or which characters could be in a wonderful dream and which are in terrible nightmares. How is Denise’s portrayal handled? Is Nadine living her best life? Should Little Nicky maybe get a therapist instead of Dick and Andy? How much in common do Josie and Evelyn have? Is Cooper doing the right thing not looking at his suspension with fear? And can he say the same for how he listens to the voice of Windom Earle laying out his fate for the rest of the season?
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S2E10 “Dispute Between Brothers” Oct 07, 2022

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Twin Peaks changes course as the Who Killed Laura Palmer arc closes, and your host John looks into all the factors (network pressure, a push for shorter story arcs, a nixed Cooper/Audrey romance, among other things) to paint an explanation of how the new direction came to be.
Then it’s time to ask: Just what did we miss in three missing days (and what we and the characters can’t understand without them)? What cycles are ending, and beginning? What signs of the supernatural can we still see just under the surface?

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